Russia and Egypt have signed an agreement for the construction of a nuclear reactor in the North African country. The agreement provides for Russian assistance in the construction and supply of Moscow of nuclear fuel stocks.
The Arab League has asked the United States to review the decision of US President Donald Trump to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. According to a joint statement on the night from Saturday to Sunday, the American decision on Jerusalem is a violation of international law. \u0026 # X27; \u0026 # x27;
The Arab League met on Saturday in Cairo because of the decision of US President Donald Trump to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Among other things, this raised the possibility of putting pressure on the US with sanctions.
The Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt refused a request from the American Vice President Mike Pence to come to the audience. Because of all the tumult around the American recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, it seems better to the Coptic church not to receive Pence.
Former Prime Minister of Egypt Ahmed Shafik said on TV on Sunday that he is still considering being a candidate for the presidency. He denied that the authorities have kidnapped him or that an investigation has been ordered.
Former Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Shafik was arrested in his home in the United Arab Emirates. Sources around Shafik's family said Saturday that the former Prime Minister is being transferred to Egypt. Shafik had said Wednesday that he is going to stand as a candidate for the presidential elections in Egypt.
The death toll of the attack on a Friday mosque on the Sinai peninsula in Egypt, according to state media, increased to 305. The Egyptian Air Force bombarded several militant posts on the peninsula in the night from Friday to Saturday in retaliation for the bloody attack.
The Egyptian armed forces have carried out air strikes after the bloody attack on a mosque. According to sources within the security services, they harassed targets in mountainous areas around Bir al-Abed on the Sinai.
During the attack on an Egyptian mosque, dozens of gunmen were involved. They opened fire from different sides when believers tried to flee after a bomb explosion.
Armed residents have Friday tried to thwart the attackers who attacked a mosque in the Egyptian Bir-al-Abed. The extremists finally fled when security forces arrived, said a senior officer in the security services.
By a bomb attack and fighting at a mosque in Egyptian Bir-al-Abed in Sinai, at least 25 deaths occurred on Friday. Terrorists, according to security forces, detonated a bomb at the house of prayer and then opened fire on believers.
Palestinian political groups have agreed on holding general elections at the end of next year. Discussions on this subject, led by the rival Hamas and Fatah, were finalized in Cairo on Wednesday with a joint statement. It also states that the participating factions leave it to the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to set the date for the ballot.
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri has returned to his homeland, more than two weeks after he announced his resignation in Saudi Arabia. He landed at Beirut airport on Tuesday evening, aboard a plane from Cairo that made a brief stopover in Cyprus. That has been announced by his spokesman.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi says he needs more military equipment to tackle Islamic State (IS). In an interview Friday with The Times, Sisi warns that warriors of IS are re-grouping in Libya and that some militants from that country try to enter Egypt.
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The Kurdish regional government offered Wednesday to temporarily freeze the results of the recent referendum on independence. This calls the Kurds to a ceasefire and an immediate end to all military operations in northern Iraq.
Indeed, 52 Egyptian security officers were killed in a firefight with militants on Friday. Six agents were injured, reporting sources within the security services. The confrontation took place during a police invasion in the shelter of the jihadists in the western west of the Nile.
Certainly sixteen Egyptian security officers were killed in a firearm with militants on Friday. This occurred during a police invasion in their shelter in the western west of the Nile. According to the Minister of the Interior, a number of extremists have also come to life. The government units are still working out the area.
The Palestinian rival parties Fatah and Hamas have reached agreement on political reconciliation. Details will be announced at a press conference later on Thursday, let the Palestinian Information Center know.
Egypt has hunted gays. They are massively defeated by the media, police and religious authorities in a disgusting campaign. Dozens of men and women have been arrested in recent days.
The Egyptian police arrested seven people who had taken a rainbow flag to a rock concert. Sources within security services say the group is suspected of promoting 'sexually abusive behavior', a euphemism for homosexuality.
To fund their crossing to Europe, an unidentified number of refugees in Egypt has sold an organ. Merchants and transplant doctors deserve a lot of money here, but whether or not and how much money the refugee gets after the heavy surgery has to be seen later. This is what Zembla reports, which Wednesday's broadcast broadcasts focuses on the care practices in Egypt.
Archaeologists have revealed a special graftombe at the city of Luxor in Egypt. It's about a goldsmith's tomb that would be over 3500 years old and originates from the eighteenth dynasty of ancient Egypt.
An Egyptian public prosecutor held two drivers on Sunday and two of their assistants who operated the trains during the heavy accident Friday at the city of Alexandria.
By a collision between two trains in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, according to the rescue services, 24 people were killed. There are more than 55 injured cases. It is feared that the death toll will still increase. The Ministry of Health spoke of 84 injured.
Egypt is not planning to recuperate economic and diplomatic ties with Qatar. The blockade remains in force and Egypt will not recall, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said Monday, despite international pressure to resolve the conflict in the region.
Russia has entered into an agreement for the escalation of the conflict with rebels on the eastern shore of the Syrian capital of Damascus. The Russian Ministry of Defense announced on Saturday that the agreement in Cairo was reached with Egypt as a mediator.
The man who kills two German women in Hurghada invokes Shariah. He explained this according to the Egyptian newspaper Al-Shorouk during his trial. In that he has shown that the ideology of the Islamic State terrorist group is based.
The man who killed two German women in Hurghada acted on behalf of Islamic State (IS). The man would have contacted extremists from IS who attacked him as foreigners, according to the German press agency DPA, based on information from security services in Cairo.
